Browse Search Feedback Other Links Home Home The Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy

Index to Creationist Claims,  edited by Mark Isaak,    Copyright © 2005
Previous Claim: CA215   |   List of Claims   |   Next Claim: CA221

Claim CA220:

Science requires experiments that can be replicated. Evolution can not be replicated, so it is not science.

Source:

Morris, Henry M. 1985. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, p. 4.

Response:

  1. Science requires that observations can be replicated. The observations on which evolution is based, including comparative anatomy, genetics, and fossils, are replicable. In many cases, you can repeat the observations yourself.

  2. Repeatable experiments, including experiments about mutations and natural selection in the laboratory and in the field, also support evolution.

Further Reading:

Weiner, Jonathan. 1994. The Beak of the Finch: A story of evolution in our time. New York: Knopf.
Previous Claim: CA215   |   List of Claims   |   Next Claim: CA221

created 2003-4-21